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Yellow Room Artists

Six outstanding artists who all exhibited at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition this year!

Anna Shapiro

Clancy Gerber Davies

Elizabeth Power

Jane Molineaux Boon

Juliet James

Sophie O’Leary

PRIVATE VIEW
Saturday 24th November
2pm – 5pm

EXHIBITION DATES
Exhibition runs from November 24th to December 1st

Keepers Blooms by Elizabeth Power

Arbor Mundi by Jane Molineaux Boon

Peckham Grounds by Anna Shapiro

Anxious Ted by Clancy Gerber Davies

Mankini 1 by Juliet James

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Exhibition runs from October 27 to November 10

Private Viewing on Saturday, October 27 2pm to 5pm.

Please come along, meet the artists and enjoy a glass or two

1940s Eileen by Anna Towner

The Old Lady by Max White

Autumn Morning By Jon Gubbay

The Soul’s Reflection

Mixed media paintings and prose by Caroline Anderson

Private View Saturday 8 September

Exhibition runs from Saturday 8 until Saturday 15 September

Whitstable Connection

National Gardens Scheme Open Day

Date
Sunday 8 July
12.30-4.30pm

Goddards Green
Angley Road
Cranbrook
Kent
TN17 3LR

Admission £5

Grierson Galleries is delighted to have been invited to work together with National Gardens Scheme Open Day for the first time on Sunday 8 July, 12.30-4.30pm.

This is a charity event for the following charities

The Queen’s Nursing Institute

Macmillan Cancer Support

Marie Curie, Carers Trust

Hospice UK, Perennial

Parkinson’s UK

and other guest charities

It’s to be held in the stunning five acre garden of our friend and neighbour John Wotton, so very local! John has invited us to showcase several local artists both in the garden and in one of his smaller barns (The Dutch Barn). We will also be showcasing Kathmandu-based NB Gurung.

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DATES

Private Viewing 10 February

Exhibition runs until Friday 23 March

We are very very excited to be exhibiting the works of Chris Blunkell, David Winston and Roger Fitzgerald.

Artists Bio

Chris Blunkell

‘I have made pictures since I was in short trousers, but until recently continued to do so only intermittently as an adult. I started painting more seriously in 2012 when a friend alerted a local gallery owner to something I had done. To my great surprise, the gallery accepted and quickly sold the picture, and asked for more. Since then I have had work displayed in various exhibitions in south east England and Los Angeles, and my work is owned by collectors in Europe, USA and the Far East.

‘I try not to get tied down to particular subjects or genres, although I hope I succeed in marrying them with a coherent approach – I prioritise keeping things fresh, finding movement, and trying to locate the tension between the figurative and the abstract.

‘I don’t have a lot to say on the subject of painting, because very consciously I try not to think about it too much. Instead, I trust my eye and instincts to tell me when something is working and, by and large, people appear to pick up on the same things. I believe that to intellectualise it – either the doing or the viewing – is to miss the point spectacularly.’

David Winston

David Winston is both a photographer and a restorer and maker of musical instruments. He sees a direct link between his two passions.
His work with musical instruments has included the restoration of some of the most important pianos in the world, including those of Beethoven, Chopin and Liszt. In 2012 he was granted the Royal Warrant to HM the Queen.

In his photography, he has been looking for a way to work beyond the constraints of modern digital imagery. This has led him to both look back to the earliest photographic process and also develop his own alternative ways of producing a photographic image.

He says: “My musical instrument restoration involves seeking out lost sounds, bringing the voices of long dormant musical instruments back to life. I see these ancient instruments as recording devices, which have captured and stored all the sounds produced on them across the centuries, and as I work on them, they slowly emerge from silence. In this, there is a similarity with photography, which is captured light. I have always been fascinated by old images and the life and light contained within them. For me, it is the painterly quality of old photographs, as opposed to the exactness of modern photography, which lends them a different emotional impact. My attempts to recreate the unique quality of these images in a modern context have led me down the path of alternative and early 19th Century photographic processes.”

Born in California, where he studied Film and Photography at the San Francisco Art Institute, David moved to the UK in 1970 and travels extensively with his camera. Like many artists before him, he has been drawn to the city of Venice as a constant source of inspiration and now divides his time between Venice and the UK.

His work displays the detached, watchful eye of the outsider, evidenced in his evocative and atmospheric images.

Roger FitzGerald

Roger FitzGerald is a resident of Sevenoaks and Chairman of ADP, a national architects practice.

Painting in his spare time in acrylic, watercolour and ink, he incorporates collage formed from tickets, newspapers and other bits and bobs found locally to each painting.

Grierson Galleries is delighted that Roger FitzGerald will be showcasing a selection of paintings from his latest publication, Buildings of New York.

Roger has previously exhibited at Grierson Galleries with his Buildings of London portfolio. Buildings of New York will feature both the famous icons, such as the Statue of Liberty and the Guggenheim Gallery, to the less well-known streets and buildings away from the tourist trail.

Signed copies of the book – hot off the printing presses – will also be available at a special exhibition discount

This vibrant exhibition will run alongside our birthday celebrations and other events, supporting South East Open Studios with local artists from the Sevenoaks Art Club exhibiting as well as our in-house artist Max White, our Kathmandu-based artist NB Gurung and more!

Frank Gray

‘Seascape and Other Discoveries’

11 March to 01 April 2017
Private View: Thursday, 16 March 2017

Frank Gray, a prolific and superbly talented artist and photographer was encouraged by the critical success of his first solo exhibition in Manchester back in 1982 and went on to establish successful working relationships with commercial art galleries throughout England. A few years later, intrigued by advances in computer technology, Frank became a 3D computer animator and then a video editor. Moving to London gave him the opportunity to resume painting culminating in two exhibitions in Camden – the first with Tessanna Hoare and Ken Butler and the second with sculptor, Adam Kops, and the internationally renowned photographer, Peter Lavery. More recently, Frank has exhibited across East Anglia and at the West Bank Gallery in Notting Hill.

Considering the subject of this exhibition, it may be surprising that Frank actually has an ambivalent relationship with the sea! It dominates his work because it is an encompassing metaphor of the human condition and has an intrinsic diverse aesthetic but he gains little enjoyment from being in a boat or swimming in the sea! Now living in Burnham Market close to an inspiring Norfolk coastline, Frank revels in its proximity

Private View is 6pm – 8.30pm on Thursday March 16 – please come along to meet the artist, view his work and enjoy a glass or two!